unlike osama you have to come out of the cave. when they find out about you then you get whacked. jon: isn t it true that he and osama bin laden crossed swords. he didn t agree with how osama bin laden was running the organization. reporter: we don t know a tremendous amount of the interplay inside there. you have to take some of this with a grain a salt. i don t think his appointment is necessarily a statement of strength on the part of osama bin laden. i think it s a statement of desperation. they are trying to show they are still in the game. this shows again why winning in afghanistan is so important to keep al-qaida out of there, to force the pakistanis to deal with them on that side of the border. finishing the job in iraq and afghanistan is so important. the reason why they went to yemen is because they ve even had trouble operating out of pakistan. they tried to set up a new base operation.
klein home whom i have crossed swords with. and i frankly used to admire him more than i do today. bill: this is what i don t get from klein. you and president bush got pounded in the media you write a book and say this is my side of the story. here is what i think. here is what happened. but when you defend yourself and the president, you are petty when you go after guys like cline and other critics you are petty. they can do it but you can t. let me give you an example. there are a lot of liberals, including his boss, rick stingel at time magazine who abused bush go shopping after 9/11. bush never shed go shopping it was actually said by a colleague of joe klein s a writer at time pelligrino who wrote that bush said go shopping in a article about the president s speech to the congress following 9/11. so, i try and set the record straight. you are right. the thinnest skinned people in
klein home whom i have crossed swords with. and i frankly used to admire him more than i do today. bill: this is what i don t get from klein. you and president bush got pounded in the media you write a book and say this is my side of the story. here is what i think. here is what happened. but when you defend yourself and the president, you are petty when you go after guys like cline and other critics you are petty. they can do it but you can t. let me give you an example. there are a lot of liberals, including his boss, rick stingel at time magazine who abused bush go shopping after 9/11. bush never shed go shopping it was actually said by a colleague of joe klein s a writer at time pelligrino who wrote that bush said go shopping in a article about the president s speech to the congress following 9/11. so, i try and set the record straight. you are right. the thinnest skinned people in
klein home whom i have crossed swords with. and i frankly used to admire him more than i do today. bill: this is what i don t get from klein. you and president bush got pounded in the media you write a book and say this is my side of the story. here is what i think. here is what happened. but when you defend yourself and the president, you are petty when you go after guys like cline and other critics you are petty. they can do it but you can t. let me give you an example. there are a lot of liberals, including his boss, rick stingel at time magazine who abused bush go shopping after 9/11. bush never shed go shopping it was actually said by a colleague of joe klein s a writer at time pelligrino who wrote that bush said go shopping in a article about the president s speech to the congress following 9/11. so, i try and set the record straight. you are right. the thinnest skinned people in